Noise Lab

Strange circular plateaus...

yup, good stuff there, dilla!

and if you added a little color on some those, you'd have some pretty good fungal growth and algae types.

and btw, 'tree bark' can also be done well using my last method, with the 5 color gradients

and here's another using the same filter with my 'fire-1' lighting environment. did the screen shot so you could see the environment.

yup, custom hdri's can be very cool and, the really interesting thing at times is how they can really change some of this noise stuff.

now here's one that just doesnt look right. parts of the black marbling look like they float a bit and just dont blend in right and i'm wondering why and what the solution is.

What the...???

Another one...

Some ancient ratatouille from under the couch...

painting with red fruit pudding?

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Kraellin wrote: but, where are the filters from which these come from?

Stashed away safely in the vaults of my secret hideout, of course, until they're ready for release.

these look cool,

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Crapadilla wrote: The randomizer is becoming addictive!

the pic with this is excellent, and where did you say your secret hide out was?

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Crapadilla,

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it seems dilla's stash is not the only thing in hiding

oh, and here all the while i thought it was to honor steve jobs and wozniak who's this texkatipoka? does he work for microsoft?

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Kraellin wrote: i'd love to see how these are composed. or, if not the full filter, then perhaps just a critical routine from one or two?

While I won't submit each and every filter in my noise lab stash, you can rest assured that some will make it after some thorough polishing.

In fact, some of my noise lab results have already hit the filter library (see 'Slate Flooring', 'Slate' and 'Rough Plastering'). These cover the techniques for all the 'plaster' and 'chiseled' types of surfaces that we talked about in the beginning of this thread...

Other candidates for publication currently are the "Pumice/Porous Stone" and the "Spider Cave" filters.

that last one has some shading elevation problems still to be worked out. this one shows things a bit better:

i've also re-worked some of the lines and nodes to give better color control. this makes it easier to get the colors you actually want. thus, things like 'sulphurous rock' are now easier to obtain:

yeah, i'm really bad about that... what happened to a hundred other trials. i tend to work on something for a while, then put it down, then start six more. i do generally go back and look at some of them, which is why i pulled out the rock wall one again. i had another idea for it inspired by your recent plaster/clay filter, so went back to look at it again. the liquid puddles, as i recall, was one preset of another filter, almost an anomaly. i'll have to dig it back up and isolate that one effect. but yeah, i liked that one too.

what'd ya think of the last four images, though? it's your opinion i'm looking for here, since you are the current noise king.

ok, that's interesting. i would have thought turn the roughness down, but ok.

and on looking 'perlin', i'll have to go back and re-read your thoughts on this. i know it helped before. and i'm assuming when you say 'generic', you're saying 'generic perlin'. i'm really going to have to study what exactly 'perlin' is and how you're identifying it. but again, ok, this is the kind of critique i want.

and yes, i know that's one of my 'failings', the whole way too broad of a range on filters. for me, for what i do, it's a good thing, but on textures designed so folks can find a given look, yes, and that goes back to the early beta days when vlad was talking about the same thing. ergo, i produce 'monsters' where vlad and quite probably others, would prefer midgets. so, this one i understand, but just have a hard time disciplining myself down to a single look. i want them all! and i want to cram them all into one filter i'll work on it

so, ok, you think it would be better then to make a granite, slate, sandstone, and so on filters rather than combining them all in one. but, let's break it down further, where do you draw the line? would it be appropriate and useful to do 3 or 5 or 10 or even 20 granite type filters or would 'granite' be enough. i ask this because i've seen in different filters a completely different form and texture that could all be 'granite'. the textures all look granite, but the shapes and forms are quite different and arrived at differently. so where's a good place to draw that line? i could easily do 3 to 5 that all looked like the same type of stone, but would produce entirely different end results in form, color and other attributes. my approach has been to just throw them all into one filter and let the user create with it. but, i can also see that if i were a texture artist on a deadline, i wouldnt necessarily want to fumble through one large filter to find that one look. on the other hand, if he has to search through five 'stone' filters to find the one he wants, that's almost as bad. so, where's the good mix of the two?

anyways, again, thank you. i appreciate the help

ok, been practicing some more. do let me know if you think these are 'too perlin' or, to a lesser extent, 'too ambiguous'.

these were mostly done with the same filter or variations thereof, so dont worry about too many dissimilar effects in the same filter. i havent separated out the various effects yet to their own filters.

this one's just a variation of the first one.